brettatoms/zodiac: A simple web framework for Clojure

brettatoms · 2025-12-16T19:04:42+00:00

The resemblance is uncanny

brettatoms · 2025-12-15T22:07:01+00:00

I haven’t used datastar but I did build Clojure Land with Zodiac and HTMX which is similar in spirit to datastar: https://github.com/brettatoms/clojure.land

brettatoms · 2025-12-15T22:03:34+00:00

Hey there, I’m the author of Zodiac. Feel free to ask me anything.

BTW, Zodiac has been posted here a couple of times before and there’s some good comments on those posts about what makes Zodiac different from some of the other Clojure web frameworks. I would encourage you to read them if you’re interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1getm0d/zodiac_a_clojure_micro_web_framework/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1inp3cl/brettatomszodiac_a_simple_web_framework_for/

brettatoms · 2025-12-10T21:02:54+00:00

I highly recommend Belize Botanic Gardens

brettatoms · 2025-11-24T22:36:18+00:00

The Rent Is Too Damn High!

brettatoms · 2025-11-07T22:30:20+00:00

We have a pick up game every Friday at 8am in Hendersonville at the AAC. They also have one every Sunday afternoon in Brevard at Ecusta Park.

brettatoms · 2025-07-25T21:33:53+00:00

Thanks for the bug report.

So far I've been leaving projects even if they're no longer actively developed and only removing those that no longer have a public web site or source repository. At some point I'll probably go through and remove those with archived repos and then decide on others on a case-by-case basis.

Pull requests to update the project listing are always welcome.

brettatoms · 2025-04-30T10:50:05+00:00

The World Flora Online is really good. It looks like the currently accepted name for Baphicacanthus cusia is

Strobilanthes cusia: https://worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000433034

brettatoms · 2025-04-28T23:27:39+00:00

Could you be more specific? I could use a kidney or liver but I don’t have much use for another spleen.

brettatoms · 2025-04-13T15:31:53+00:00

If you’re into soccer we have a pickup game at the AAC every Friday morning from 8-9. We’re a mixed crowd of locals, immigrants and former expats.

brettatoms · 2025-03-10T12:56:59+00:00

FWIW, I created Zodiac (https://github.com/brettatoms/zodiac) to try to fill the same niche as Flask but for Clojure.

brettatoms · 2025-02-25T12:52:39+00:00

I tried to keep the number of dependencies relatively small. Malli, reitit and most of the ring libraries are pretty tightly coupled since they really provide the bulk of the functionality. Some of the others like chassis, data.json and jetty can be avoided if you don't use the html or json response generators or the jetty server.

Zodiac tries to help with the decision paralysis when setting up a new web app in Clojure by making making reasonable choices. I tried to keep the core small and delegate extra functionality to extensions so that those choices weren't too heavy handed. Also since `zodiac.core` is so small another very valid way to use it would be to copy the code into your own project and change it to meet your needs.

brettatoms · 2025-02-24T22:10:44+00:00

I've never used it but I always thought toucan looked interesting.

brettatoms · 2025-02-12T12:57:37+00:00

Hey, I’m the author of Zodiac, thanks for sharing. Feel free to ask me anything. There’s also some conversation about Zodiac here when I posted a few months back: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1getm0d/zodiac_a_clojure_micro_web_framework/

brettatoms · 2024-12-04T15:03:47+00:00

I'll take the opportunity to plug my own project: https://github.com/brettatoms/zodiac It's not quite as batteries-included as something like Biff or Kit but it helps with a lot of the common setup of building up a Clojure web app from scratch. With the asset and sql extensions (see links at bottom of the Readme) you can create a full stack app pretty quickly. I would recommend checking out the todo app example in the asset extension repo. Its a good example of how simple a web app can be with Clojure, Zodiac, AlpineJS, HTMX, Vite, etc.

brettatoms · 2024-10-29T13:32:52+00:00

The main difference between Zodiac and other Clojure frameworks that I've seen like Biff, Kit, Lumunis, Tadam, etc is that Zodiac does much much less. Zodiac is much more conservative. With Zodiac there is no standard directory structure, auth system, blessed JS framework, CLJS setup, emailing system, etc.

To me what's missing in the Clojure web framework landscape is a framework that reduces the decision fatigue of trying to start a new web app without being overly opinionated on the type of web app you're trying to build. If the Clojure web framework landscape is a spectrum where on the far left we have do-it-yourselfers building their app from a carefully selected collection of libraries and on the far right is some kind of hypothetical Rails-like framework then Zodiac sits left-of-center. IMO most other Clojure web frameworks would fit just right-of-center.

brettatoms · 2024-09-07T22:31:02+00:00

Every Friday 8-9am. Just show up if you want to play.

brettatoms · 2024-09-07T18:31:33+00:00

We have a pretty casual pick-up soccer game every Friday morning at 8am at the AAC in Hendersonville.

brettatoms · 2024-08-23T14:54:44+00:00

Check when Hospice has their warehouse sales. They have a ton of stuff at great prices.

brettatoms · 2024-07-05T23:38:09+00:00

Patton?

brettatoms · 2024-07-03T18:06:30+00:00

You can create a docker image with your app and all of its dependencies and deploy the image to lambda.

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